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Ireland’s Dry Stone Wall Association will be holding a festival in County Donegal’s Glencolmcille on June 17th to 19th 2016
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Plate tectonics: parts of an island volcano, complete 70 Million years ago, are now lying 3,500 km apart in the South Atlantic
Research by marine scientists from Kiel and Bremerhaven, Germany
Exposure to crystalline silica: US office for occupational health releases new rules
Stone Associations call companies „to contact their legislative representatives immediately“
Ecuador earthquake caused death toll of at least 500
Along the Pacific coast the Nazca plate subducts (submerges) under the South American plate
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The Indoor-Trade-Fair for Marble Blocks in the Turkish city of Bursa counted 14,728 visitors and 148 exhibitors in its 40,000 m², 7-hall, exhibit area
All about stone: Lists of trade fairs in natural stone, architecture/construction and design/interior-design/lifestyle
Stone-Ideas.com has compiled a list of interesting trade fairs – google ranking now first place
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Bedrock formations erode in time, as is a well-known fact. Not common knowledge but now proven by a group of scientists as reported in Nature Geoscience
Euroroc News (1/16): Emotions as a tool to promote natural stone
Professor Gerd Merke, General Secretary: Stone sector should point out that its material is „true, native and 100% natural“
Free MIA-Webinar: An Introduction to Natural Stone
Online tuition on April 5, 2016 for construction and design professionals about stone as a building material
WoldSkills 2017, Abu Dhabi: stonemasons’ participation on the edge
The world craftsmen’s competition requires 12 members of a craft to participate in any given category. Stonemasons have only 11 submissions
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Search for Earth-like planets in other solar systems, so-called exoplanets, can now be observed via internet
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„Stone’s DNA“ has been categorized and deciphered by the French Centre Technique de Matériaux de Construction
Dekton XGloss at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Madrid
With its Engineered stone, Cosentino Group took part once again in the world of fashion and haute couture
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Are there ghost-cities in China, results of planning mistakes and proof of the real-estate bubble?
Finding exploitable natural stone with the aid of ground radar and modern data analysis
The new European Community Project Sustamining is all about making modern geological technology available to small enterprises in the stone branch